Summary: There are many different ways to breathe. Who knew?
Because there are so many muscles situated around the axial skeleton, different
groups of muscles can interact to achieve inhalation and exhalation. Depending
on which muscle groups you use the outcome will vary based on breath control
and support.
Key words:
Thorax – ribcage
Inspiratory muscles – muscles that help with inhalation, includes
the diaphragm and external intercostals.
Expiratory muscles – muscles that help with exhalation,
includes the internal intercostals, the external oblique, the internal oblique,
rectus abdominus and transverse abdominus.
Antagonism – when two muscles work together in opposite
directions to maintain control over a specific movement.
Clavicular breathing – upper chest, inhaling with a
pronounced elevation of the upper chest by lifting the shoulders and clavicles,
exhaling by allowing gravity to pull the shoulders back down, more difficult to
control because there is no antagonism between muscles.
Thoracic breathing – lower chest, contraction of the
diaphragm and external intercostal muscles during inhalation, contraction of
internal intercostal muscles and release of diaphragm during exhalation, better
regulation of air pressure through muscular antagonism.
Abdominal breathing – belly breathing, inhalation is solely
diaphragmic contraction while relaxation of certain abdominal muscles occurs (which
abdominal muscles affects where the viscera is displaced), exhalation is caused
by contraction of abdominal muscles pulling in against the viscera, muscular antagonism
between external intercostals and oblique muscles or the abdominals and
diaphragm.
Balanced breathing – also called appoggio breathing, a
combination of thoracic and abdominal breathing.
Breath support – the relationship between the muscles of inspiration
and expiration that are used to control pressure in the air supplied to the
larynx (as well as the interaction between the respiratory system, larynx, and vocal
tract), enables the production of beautiful sounds, a pulmonary function (relating
to the lungs).
Breath control – the efficiency of the regulation of airflow
through the larynx, allows sounds to last to the end of long phrases, a laryngeal
function (relating to the larynx).
Application: I can practice breathing in each of the
different ways to experience how it feels and how it effects my sound.
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